Day 195: Moneyless Societies and Equal Money Capitalism

This blog is in response to a comment made on one of our previous blog posts.
We will be focusing on the bold segment from this comment made on: Day 162: EQUAL MONEY CAPITALISM - The Way Forward

The idea of equal contribution, equal share, equal this and equal that is probably doomed to failure form the beginning because it will require consent as to what an equal contribution really is. This is impossible to determine and thus causes conflict. Victor Schauberger develops a different viewpoint based on his observations of nature. Nature always produces abundantly so there is always enough for all. This idea is always adopted in the Venus Project. Taking these considerations into account, I believe it is possible to set up an "economic" system where all is indeed free and freely shared by all.

We are not questioning ours and nature’s ability to produce and provide for everyone. Even now in our world where many do not have access to basic resources to sustain themselves, there IS an abundance present. The problem lies not in the presence of abundance – but how this abundance is directed and distributed. Currently the majority of the resource are being directed and distributed to a select few which is problematic for those who are then denied those resources. Even if one decide to run a ‘resource based economy’


So even if you throw away the concept of money and work with a ‘resource based society’ – you will still require a system of distribution to ensure that everyone receives the resources they require to live a dignified life. Making a jump from a money-based society to a money-less society is a big one. That is why within both Equal Money Capitalism and Equal Money we still use ‘money’ – but where money is reduced to only having a numerical/accounting function to track, monitor, distribute and account for the production and distribution of resources. Money is then not any longer about ‘who wants what’ and ‘who can afford what’ – but a tool to monitor the flow of services and goods to ensure everyone access to the resources they require whilst simultaneously ensuring that resource are being used at a rate that is sustainable. So from this sense ‘money’ won’t be ‘money’ anymore as how we know it today – but will only be used as a tool of measure for practical purposes. We term it ‘money’ because it’s a point that everyone deals with in everyday life, everything revolves around money – simply removing money out of the equation will be too big of an adjustment to adapt to – but in essence, it’s just ‘numbers’.


Also realise that we are not saying that a moneyless society is impossible – but that it is merely impossible at this stage. We first require an interim stage of multiple stages to get to a point where we do not require an additional tool to manage and distribute resources responsibly. That is why we first look at what is here and what people believe has value – as money – and use that as tool to bring about equality through equalizing money. Once everyone realise that it was never about money but the value of Life and we have managed to integrate responsibility and respect for Life in our every day and every way living – then we can decide to remove money from the equation, but in the end whether you have money present as a tool in your system or not = it does not matter, because the outcome will still be the same as Equality for All.

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Day 160 - Stewardship in an Equal Money System

Stewardship

Nature and Symbiosis

When left to operate naturally, the plant and animal world exist in a symbiotic relationship with each other. Symbiosis is, in essence, a giving and receiving – a form of value exchange. When all parts of nature are allowed to exist in a symbiotic way – they together exist as a massive and complex life-support system, which human beings are meant to be a part of.

A profit-driven system has altered how we view and participate in nature, where we have started to take more than we require and virtually stopped giving back, hereby disrupting the balancing effect nature requires in order to be able to perform its function as a symbiotic life-support system.

Monitoring the Well-Being of Animals and Plants

In an Equal Money System the human being will reintegrate himself as a full participant of nature – where nature is not just something ‘out there’ anymore – something we ‘visit’ once in a while when we want to ‘get away from it all’. Instead, nature is part of our world and we are a part of nature. This means a rediscovering of what it means to be a human as a physical being and a redefining of our relationship with our environment. In order to best support ourselves, we require to best support that which supports us: which is nature. The challenge before us is therefore to restore the Earth to a state of being where it can operate in optimal conditions, as a smooth-running life-support system.

Where the human is involved with animals and plants, the human will monitor the well-being of those plants and animals and become a care-taker of the area that they are occupying – because there is a human impact. Any form of problematic development, such as soil erosion or human waste, as a result of human impact – requires to be managed by the human.

Where humans are not a part of the environment, nature will take care of itself. For instance, if a certain animal or insect increases in numbers to such an extent that they become a negative or destructive impact on their environment – the forces of nature will bring about equilibrium through, for instance, some form of natural disaster that reduces the numbers. Those kinds of natural disasters, which bring about a new form of equilibrium, are part of the distribution cycle of nature. Or if, for instance, a rabbit population expands too rapidly in a certain area – it will cause predator birds to have more access to food, allowing more of them to survive and reproduce. Eventually these birds will be so big in numbers that they will reduce the rabbit population back to where it was. Having less food available, the birds will also reduce in numbers again. So, nature has a variety of ways to correct situations of disharmony and imbalance.

Unlike human beings, animals and plants are very proficient in using the least possible resources. They don’t have the tendency to simply hoard for the sake of having. That is why the form of competition that occurs within nature brings about actual equilibrium, whereas this is not happening in our economic system – because animals and plants will only compete for what is necessary and understand that if their environment as a whole exists in the most optimal way – they themselves will benefit most. Therefore, we will not be tracking every animal and plant to monitor the well-being of each life-form, we will, in essence, be tracking the human impact on nature. This will enable us to assist nature in re-establishing equilibrium where it has been lost. Our role as a human will thus be to rehabilitate nature as a steward so that it can correct itself and re-establish its expression into what it is meant to be.

It must be understood that nature, as a life-support system, has inherent value and that its importance does not only extend in so far as it gives us nice experiences – when we go to the beach or go for a safari-trip. Those experiences are of secondary importance and may not interfere with nature’s expression and optimal functioning. As said above, our interaction with nature will change, where we are not just ‘enjoyers’ of nature, where we no longer merely sit back and ‘enjoy the view’ – but where we are active participants – identifying where nature is struggling to maintain itself and step in with rehabilitative programs and projects – and thus, become a part of the flows of give and receive.

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Day 156: Honoring the Right to Life in an Equal Money System

Honoring the Right to Life

To understand the Principle of Honoring the Right to Life, first must be understood what Life is.

Changing the form Life takes on does not change Life - Life remains the same. So, whether the Life is a sperm or an egg, or whether it is ‘merged’ or ‘fused’ into a new being – that new being is not a ‘new’ Life Form. It’s just Life in a new form, but it’s the same Life. Therefore, even if you have an abortion, you are not ‘taking’ a Life, you are stopping the Form that that Life will take from taking Form. Because allowing Life to take that Form would, for instance, cause disharmony. So, within altering the form of Life, you’re not in essence, causing any harm. If that were so and you walk on the grass and you kill lots of animals and bugs – then you would be under the Law of Karma for eternity – because you are doing it every single day. There is, as such, also no difference between eating a vegetable or a fruit or an animal, you are changing the form of Life into another form of Life, which would come out of your body as shit, which then again becomes the manure, the support for the plants, for instance, to produce fruit or to produce grass so that the animal can eat it, so that the cycle can continue.

So, for instance, in the case of facing the question of having an abortion or not – one will look at the whole point from a perspective of harmony and disharmony. The guidelines on how to assess whether allowing a child to be born would be Best for All and in fact Honor Life, will be decided upon together. Within this, the central question that will be required of an answer is: What or how is the Life going to be of this being; is this Life going to be free from limitation? If it is not, and there is a high possibility for a disease or a genetic problem to manifest – then why would we make that Life suffer? The claim that one’s baby should be born regardless of its quality of Life because it is ‘a part of you’ is not valid, because everything is a part of you – Always! One’s belief does not change that.

What also requires to be understood is the fact that – because the Form Life takes on does not determine the Life, all Life is Equal, and thus – requires to be Equally Honored.

Therefore, the Principle of Honoring the Right to Life should not be understood in terms of not causing ANY harm or giving every baby the right to be born. It does, however, imply to eradicate all unnecessary harm and to ensure that all Life forms experience the Best Life possible.

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Day 128: What Is Nature Worth To Us?

Check out this slide-show: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/01/world/gallery/eco-sols-text-nature-economics/index.html

What they're trying to do is to put a price on various parts of the Natural world - like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, Thailand's mangrove, Colombia's rainforests, etc.

The idea is to put a monetary value on these natural 'assets' to prove to people that it will be more expensive to destroy them than to preserve them.

The problem is in the way the price-tags are assigned. They are assigned in terms of what direct costs these ecological systems prevent to be unleashed on the economy and in terms of what people think and believe to be valuable/important. For instance - how much do they value having nice green views, or the idea that somewhere far away some tiger is being protected?

So - the value of nature is only measured in terms of human interests. Intrinsically - the value of an animal's natural habitat is - to him/her - priceless. He/she needs it to survive and without it, well - the animal dies. There's no money you can give the animal that will make the animal say "oh okay, if you give me so many million then you can destroy my habitat."

And, further, can we even put a price on Nature. Let's take the rainforest - without it, the oxygen levels on Earth would rapidly deteriorate to nothing. Now - let's ask: what would it cost to restore the oxygen levels to the optimal ones? We cannot 'make' oxygen - there's no money in the world that would allow us to do the job the rainforest does as well as it does it. Without oxygen, there will be no life on Earth - how much do we value all life on Earth in money-terms? Can we? People think it's impossible to place a price on how much their child is worth - one human life - are we seriously thinking we can put a price on something as important as the rainforest, which is responsible for ALL life on Earth?

We've got some serious re-considerations to do if this is how we decide to take care of the Earth - by putting a price on it's apparent value and then, accordingly, either protect it or destroy it. Who are we kidding? We will not make it without nature, we will not make it without the animal kingdom - we will die - it's really that simple. We are not independent of nature - we are a part of it and we are affected by it. It's time we realise that the only way we'll save ourselves is through taking responsibility for the damage we've done and doing what we can to correct it.

In an Equal Money System, the only Value will be Life - not Human Life - LIFE itself - that which humans don't even understand yet. Accordingly, no animal or plant will be treated with less respect and reverence than the human - and so, we will find our place in the world again - among those who have supported us for millenia, while we have done nothing but attempted to destroy them in return.

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Day 54: Government Intervention - Part 3

I commit myself to expose that any type of intervention within the current economic system completely useless – since we are changing some of the variables in the equation but the equation is still rooted within the same principle – as the principle of self-interest and gain – and whatever changes we implement within the system, will be rendered useless throughout time as self-interest will always prevail – as this is how we set up our system

I commit myself to show that the problem with economics is the very root, as the starting point of economics and the specific character role which has been assigned to humanity – where the starting point is to distribute limited resources in such a way as to attempt and satisfy unlimited wants of humans – where money is the deciding factor as to who gets to satisfy their wants/needs and who doesn’t – and where the human has taken on the role of the self-interested character who is allowed to do whatever it takes in the name of profit

I commit myself to expose that an economic system with the above equation and variables as its starting point can only result in disaster as it is based on unsustainable goals and the reckless/unreliable/irresponsible nature of the human being – having left out all and any consideration regarding any other beings but itself

I commit myself to expose that any action concerning change within the system for the betterment of Life on Earth is not in fact altruistic – as any change within the system is rendered useless by the overpowering authority which has been given to self-interest and the pursuit of happiness and so the only altruistic act, the only act of unconditional love would be the abolishment of the current world system and replace it with a system which is Best for All Life as the Equal Money System which Values Life, that which is real as the physical reality over Mind Delusions as Money

I commit myself to show that standing / support a cause which does not cause the replacement of the current world system is useless and will most likely only bring more suffering as the workings of the current world system as the reflection of the mind is not understood

I commit myself to the education of the human being so all may see/realise/understand how this reality actually operates as it is merely reflecting / mimicking the workings of the Mind


I commit myself to expose that we cannot sustain our current world system as it was not designed with sustainability in Mind and thus the best thing we can do is release ourselves from the current world system as it is a parasite sucking the Life out of Planet Earth and all the living beings as plants, animals and humans – and so I commit myself to remove the parasite and replace it with a system of Support as the Equal Money System where NONE are left behind

I commit myself to the redefinition of economics – where the starting point of economics is no longer that of the limited anthropocentric view of life, but a starting point of Biocentrism* where Life is put as the centre cause and where the Human no longer plays the role of Self-Interested Agent looking out to satisfy his own desires, but is placed in a position of Stewardship*/Custodianship – here to support other Life forms as itself within an Equal and One consideration and respect

*Biocentrism: Biocentrism states that nature does not exist simply to be used or consumed by humans, but that humans are simply one species amongst many,^[4] and that because we are part of an ecosystem, any actions which negatively affect the living systems of which we are a part, adversely affect us as well,^[4][5] whether or not we maintain a biocentric worldview.^[4] Biocentrists believe that all species have inherent value, and that humans are not "superior" in a moral or ethical sense

*Stewardship is an ethic that embodies responsible planning and management of resources.

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Day 10: The Goodness of Man is a FairyTale we Tell our Children so they can Sleep at Night

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe in the goodness of man.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe that there is just this little spark of goodness left in man.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if a spark of goodness existed in man, this goodness would be reflected in our world.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, poverty would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, prostitution would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, child pornography would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, money would not be the motivator of life.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, all men would be equal.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, the cries of the suffering would be heard and addressed with the re-organisation and re-desingning of our economic system.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, animals and nature would be honoured as the source of all human material well-being.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, common sense would be the common language and no wars would be waged over differing opinions, beliefs and interests.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, murder would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, suicide would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, cancer would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, the best health care would be available to all.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, children would not turn on their parents.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, the world would not be destroyed in the name of money.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, gossip would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, backchat would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, people would be the same within as without.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, the arrogance of the ludicrous idea that technology can replace all natural capital would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, we wouldn't owe our life to a system where we have to labour for most of the years we have to enjoy the last few in old age.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, debt would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, political corruption would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, consumption would not define a man's value.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, no abuse would exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, euthanasia would be legal everywhere.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, animals would not be abused and tortured in the name of profit.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, there would be no guns.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, brainwashing through school, media and advertisement would not exist.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, all parents would first educate themselves on how to educate a child before even considering to have a child.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, a job would not be a prerequisite for survival.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, we would not be obsessed with finding love and kindness in another.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, an equal money system would already be in place.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, direct political participation would form part of everyone's daily life.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, poison would not be used as a cheap way to make food taste sweet in order to make big profits.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, only the best and most efficient products would be produced in order to not deplete natural resources at an unsustainable rate.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that if there were a spark of goodness in man, each one would love their neighbour as themselves.

I commit myself to expose the evil nature of man that denies the right to life.

I commit myself to expose the evil nature of man that allows millions to suffer for the abundance of a few.

I commit myself to expose the evil nature of man where each man is only willing to think of himself.

I commit myself to expose the evil nature of man that continuous destroying Earth in the face of the disasters this has already proven to bring about.

I commit myself to the re-education of mankind through exposure of what is being accepted and allowed and the offering of alternative solutions that work for all.

I commit myself to the death of mankind as what man currently exists as and the re-birthing of a new form of humankind that considers all life equally at all times, creating a world that supports and benefits everyone - manifesting heaven on Earth.

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